just gave birth to triplets is being held at the
hospital over her family's inability for N150k bill.
Sun News reports below...
A couple with five children was recently
blessed with a set of triplets. The couple,
now with eight kids – five boys and three
girls – never envisaged going that far in
child bearing. But since circumstance had
made it so, Mr. & Mrs. Ifeani Benjamin
Amadu, from Ukpo in Dunukofia Local
Government Area of Anambra State, have
no option but to accept their fate.Mrs.
Amadu told our correspondent that three
months into her pregnancy, she had gone
for scan only to be told that she was
carrying three babies in her womb, a
revelation that threw her into fright.
Soon after she was delivered of the babies
at Ajeromi General Hospital, Ajegunle,
Lagos, on Saturday, October 27, 2014, the
woman and her husband found themselves
in a tight corner. They had no money to
offset their hospital bills, which stood at
N150, 000.
Mrs. Amadu, while narrating her
experiences during and after her pregnancy,
pointed out that it was a serious battle.
“The pregnancy was not business as
usual,” she began. “At a point, my whole
body became too heavy that I could not do
even very common things. I could neither
sleep well nor walk freely. Also, bending and
bathing were tough for me. In fact, it was
as if I was carrying excess load.”
She told Daily Sun, however, that all the
problems disappeared immediately after she
was delivered of the babies. People kept
trooping to the hospital to see the bundles
of joy. It was discovered that the triplets
were the first to be delivered in the hospital
this year.
Though she had a safe delivery and her
triplets were in sound health, paying her
hospital bills and taking care of the triplets
have become a daunting task. Following
failure of the couple to foot their hospital
bill more than two weeks after delivery, the
triplets and their mother could not be
discharged.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Amadu, a National
Certificate of Education (NCE) holder and a
teacher in a private school earns a very
lean salary. Her income and that of her
husband are nowhere enough for them to
cater for the delivery. “I could not save
enough for this delivery because my salary
is poor,” she said. “I tried to get a job in a
public school as a teacher, but none came
my way. So I decided to manage with the
one that I have right now. My husband too
planned as much as he could for the task
ahead, but we never knew that things
would work out this way. Unfortunately,
earlier before my delivery, robbers visited us
and carted away some money that my
husband had planned to invest in a little
business. So, that is why we have found
ourselves in this tensed situation.”
Mrs. Amadu wants financial support from
men and women of goodwill who she
believes would have a share in the special
blessings being brought by the triplets. “At
the moment, we cannot pay the hospital bill
due to our severe financial constraints. We
are therefore calling on men and women of
goodwill like Governors Wille Obiano,
Rochas Okorocha, Babatunde Raji Fashola,
corporate bodies and other groups and
individuals to come to our aid so that we
can leave the hospital. I am tired of staying
here; I want to go home with my babies,”
she said.
Her husband, Mr. Ifeani Amadu, also
expressed his feelings. “We have been
married for 14 years, and since that time,
my wife has been fruitful. In fact, we had
closed child bearing after four children. But
the pregnancies continued to come. After
having five children, we never planned
having another, yet the sixth came. As a
child of God, I have been feeling so bad to
encourage abortion or family planning. But
now, we have been forced to do it.”
He believed that the triplets would serve as
a point of contact for others. He described
the situation, as a serious one and called
on Nigerians to come to the rescue of his
family. “I have been thinking about how to
get out of this situation. My wife and the
triplets have spent close to three weeks in
the hospital because I have no money to
pay their bill. I am appealing to those who
are touched by what my family is going
through to assist us financially so that we
could pay the hospital bill and cater for the
babies too.
Any financial assistance should be made to
Mr. Ifeani Benjamin Amadu, UBA Account
number 2032569487. The family can be
reached on 07033284662 and
09035639764.
Source: Sunnewsonline..
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